Alex Elliott
@alexpotato
Dad | DevOps / SRE | FinTech | Management | Paintball | @rutgersu grad | I write lots of threads.
A tweet thread of my tweet threads (we must go deeper!) 😎
Mead told me my grandfather would put things in perspective by saying: “well, nobody died so it’s not that bad.” Realizing now that he lived through: - the Great Depression - childhood before antibiotics - World War 2 (was too old to fight) And that phrase probably meant a lot…
This thread is amazing. Covers banking, insurance, international finance and basic business core principles.
San Francisco's 1906 earthquake destroyed 80% of the city & had a monumental impact on the world of insurance globally. 98% of the losses were attributed to fires rather than the earthquake, and many of those fires were set by building owners after the earthquake, because, like…
After years of following @visakanv, I’m going to say this: - reply game is bread and butter - writing threads is the jam
“Great” “Yeah, that was good”
The lion roar sound effects in The Lion King were not real lions, but voice actor Frank Welker growling into a trash can
Legend is not a big enough word to encompass Robin Williams’ creative genius.
2. Robin Williams’ emotional tribute to the American Flag leaves an entire stadium speechless — then in tears. What a true legend 🇺🇸
Need to get to the root of this problem.
Mathematics. Which "God" decided this would be the best way to set up the universe?
To me, this is the real genius of Elon: Getting high speed decision making paired with good engineering and at scale.
When designing Cybercab’s body with “plastic panels”, they were able to have a single 2 hour meeting with in-house materials team, Franz’s design team, engineers who make the assembly line machines, etc. Would have taken months at any other company.
Fascinating and also at the same time: What else are they figuring out from the vibration data?
android earthquake alerts are actually cool in how they work i assumed that they were just getting reporting data from the USGS or similar services and sending notifications out based on that data but they are actually interpreting accelerometer data each phone samples…
I’m assembling a team (to turn around distressed assets)
the most underrated winner of the AI boom is the 15,000 person Caribbean island of Anguilla (which has a GDP of ~$320m)
I got locked out of my dorm room after I took a shower and I had to walk across campus in a towel to the housing office to get a spare and I was suddenly cured of my forgetfulness.
My wife is in the University of Arkansas Facebook group for moms of incoming freshman. I convinced her to send me this screenshot, but there are so many more absolutely ridiculous questions like this. Some of these kids (and their moms) aren't going to make it. 😂
Turns out the basketball coach of one of my kids’ worked there when this happened:
Resigning a job to go to a company that almost went spectacularly out of business. OR “I heard you were going there! What are you going to do??” A thread.
Whenever I hear about people vibe coding, I wonder how they are going to handle errors like these:
I once crashed our alerting system using Excel. Cell had the same string as the “this is an alert” field in the system logs. Firewall saw the Excel string (b/c cloud Office), alert system thinks it’s an alert, parsing error, new alert, infinite loop System crash
This thread is jam packed with great suggestions. Also a master class in how to write a thread.
I timeboxed 45 minutes to write down every single rule of good social skills I could come up with. Let me know if you want me to elaborate on any of these:
#deepcommentgems
technically the metaphor is better suited to say she’s on the defense. she rarely scores points on her own, but she’s preventing other teams from scoring on her turf.
Excellent advice on career growth. Specific to cybersecurity and can also be generalized to any field. Learn, build a team, scale it out. Profit.
Nuclear take: bug bounty and exploit dev are supposed to be transitional jobs you grow out of. They get tediously repetitive, but more importantly do not scale. You can only work on a few bugs at a time, and spend time on minute details. You ideally learn to deliver value at…